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Newton's Laws Of Motion Research Paper

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Humans started building rockets way before Sir Isaac Newton's discoveries. The first rockets ever built were by the Chinese. Their rockets, knows as "The fire arrows" were not reliable nor entirely successful were some exploded while launching and others flew in wrong courses. This was mainly because people used to build and launch them without entirely understanding the logic and theory behind it all. However, all that changed when Sir Isaac Newton introduced his physics principles and laws of motion where the first successful rockets to fly into space were all after Newton's discoveries since everything about the rocket was based on his three laws of motion. He introduced the gravitation theories in 1666 and years later, he presented his …show more content…

In addition, Newton's second law of motion states "Force is equal to the change in momentum per change in time. For a constant mass, force equals mass times acceleration." signifying that the more mass an object has, the more force it needs to change its velocity. A force acting on an object is always the mass of the object times its acceleration is the equation obtained from the second law that supports the other laws of motion, specifically the third law which says "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." suggesting that when an object exerts force on another, the second object will exert a force back with the same …show more content…

Newton's first law was the basic idea behind space shuttles and rockets or even satellites not getting close to a large body in space since that body's gravity will unbalance the forces of the spacecraft and cause it to change its path or even get trapped in the body's gravitational field. However, if its necessary to pass next to a body that has a gravitational force that might pull the astronauts towards it, Newton's third law theories are used. Astronauts will have to increase their spacecraft's velocity to a certain extent by burning more propellant from the engine to be expelled outside and achieve the reaction promised in the third law of motion. Furthermore, as long as the rocket moves in space, it burns propellants. Propellant being a large proportion of the rocket's mass, it causes the balance in the second law's equation to shed when it decreases. In order to maintain that balance, the rocket's acceleration needs to increase to take over the burnt mass. Therefore, Newton's second law was behind the strategy of all rockets and spacecrafts starting off slowly and becoming faster as their propellants are

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Newton’s Laws have been used for a very long time and is very accurate (well obviously because he’s Newton.) Newton explains in his laws that in the first law, an object will not change its motion unless a force acts on it. In the second law, the force on an object is equal to its mass times its acceleration. In the third law, when two objects interact, they apply equal opposite forces, they are exerting different forces causing it to be balanced. Like I said above, Newton’s first law says that when an object is in motion, it will stay in motion unless a force acts on it.

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Other scientists like Nicolas Copernicus believed in the Heliocentric Theory. At first, it didn’t explain how the planets orbits the way they did and was very hesitant to share it with others. In 1601, another scientist named Johannes Kepler proved that Copernicus idea was correct. They show that the planets rotate around the sun. Another method Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo developed was called the Scientific Method.

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In reactions, this law says that the mass of the original substance is the same after going through a reaction. This is shown with balanced chemical equations. It is needed so that the mass of the product is equivalent to the mass of the reactants. Mole ratio is the ratio of moles of one substance to the moles of another substance in a balanced equation.

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There are three Newton laws that apply to rocket science and basically everything. Newton's first law states that every object will remain at rest or in constant motion in a straight line unless required to change its state by the action of an outer force. In rocket testing, the rocket remains at rest until an unbalanced force (being the water acting as thrusters) allows the object to move by releasing pressure. Newton’s second law states that the velocity (speed) of an object is altered when it is overwhelmed by an external force. In this case, the rocket’s speed is lessened as the water is being pushed out making the bottle is light which means the wind acts as the external force reducing its velocity.

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Space is still an expanse that humanity has just barely scratched the surface on. However, in order to explore this region, rockets will be used to navigate the black expanse. Rockets that stemmed from the ideas of Wernher Von

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By establishing that gravity, introduced by Galileo, played a role in the orbital understandings of Kepler, Newton also presented the law of universal gravitation in application to these three universal laws of motion in his 1687 publication. Newton’s development of his law of gravity corroborated Kepler’s theory of elliptical orbits and propelled a new method in the research of physics. Newton himself wrote the sentiment that, “To the same natural effects, we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.” The findings of Newton prompted physics research to focus on patterns in the natural world that are universally

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What were Newton’s 3 Laws of motion? The First law of Motion for Newton states “A body in motion will remain at rest, and a body in motion will remain in motion unless it is acted upon by an external force.” It also states that things can’t start, stop, or change direction by themselves.

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In 1668 the world 's first reflecting telescope was built by a well known scientist, Isaac Newton. Although Newton accomplished many things in his life he also faced many struggles growing up. Not only did Newton invent the world 's first reflecting telescope he developed the three laws of motion, discovered many new facts about gravity and had many other accomplishments throughout his lifetime. Isaac Newton is often referred to as one of the most influential scientists. He and Albert Einstein are almost equally matched contenders for this title (The Doc, 2015).

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Brett Lindsay Mr. Moore Newton's Laws Newton's three laws help describe the basic rules of physics. These laws that Isaac Newton had created, help mankind understand the complex branch of science known as physics, in a more simple way. These laws are present only because of natural forces such as inertia, friction, gravity, etc. Without natural forces, the world would appear much different and these laws would be incomprehensible. Newton's first law states that an object in motion must stay in motion (or object in rest must stay in rest) unless acted upon by an external force.

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The first law states that a moving object will remain in motion and a resting object will remain at rest until changes by an unbalanced force. The second law of motion says that the greater the mass of an object, the more force is needed to acceralte it. According to Newton’s third law of motion, there is always an equal and opposite re-action that occurs as an effect of every action. Isaac Newton’s laws of motion are important in the world of physcs because they are accurate, relate to almost everything that we experience in our daily lives, and tell us how things

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The first law was the law of inertia, which was already explained. The second law of motion was published in 1687, in which he formalized the description of how massive bodies move under the influence of external forces. This expanded on Galileo's idea who developed the first accurate laws of motion for masses. The second law says that when a constant force acts on a massive body, it causes it to accelerate. If an object is in motion prior or the situation is observed from a moving inertial reference frame, that body may appear to speed up, slow down, or change direction.

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Imagine a ball sailing into the back of the net and the crowd going wild. Do you ever wonder why it got there with such power? Of course you do! Think of Newton’s First Law of Motion. It states that an object at rest will stay at rest, and an object at motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by an outside, unbalanced force.

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Before Newton, there were multiple viewpoints of how gravity exactly worked. People like Aristotle, Galileo, and Kepler saw Gravity in new and different ways. Aristotle based his theory on the concept of the Earth being the center of the Universe. Aristotle’s theory states that all objects and masses are going to their “natural place”, the Earth. Fast forward to the fifteen hundreds, where Galileo is studying gravity using two objects and dropping them at the same time.

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Newton’s Third Law: - ‘For every reaction, there is an equal and opposite reaction’ - (Hall, 2015). If an object (Object A) exerts a force onto another object (Object B), Object B will exert the same force back, just in the opposite direction. A finger is exerting a force on to the wall. According to Newton’s Third Law of Motion, the wall should be exerting the same amount of force, just in the opposite direction, to the finger.

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